Max Martin: the Scandinavian pop master returns as a new entry, once again, to both songwriting charts

We list the week’s top songwriters behind the biggest hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart

Things settled a bit this week following the earth-shattering debut of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. While several of the tracks from the new album fell in the Billboard Hot 100 rankings (as is to be expected), enough of them retained their staying power to keep Lamar atop our chart recognising the most influential songwriters of the week. A few of his co-writers also fell in ranking as well.

As a result, the songwriters behind songs with consistent staying power returned to the chart, including Steve Mac, Bruno Mars and co, Adam Feeney, and the indomitable Max Martin.

Every track charting on the UK’s Official Singles Chart for the week is given a point value, which is then split equally among the songwriters listed for each, and then ranked in order of those totals.